Giving specific dates would be neither prudent nor sensible

The director of the Center for Health Alerts and Emergencies, Fernando Simón, considered this Wednesday that giving specific dates on the different measures contemplated in the de-escalation "would not be prudent or sensible" because the situation must be assessed at all times.

Simón has spoken in this way in his daily press conference in which he has been asked about questions such as when he can go to the terraces or visit other people, and that he has assured that they are matters that for the moment he cannot answer.

The epidemiologist has pointed out that the situation must be assessed at all times, of all the factors included in the document presented yesterday by the Prime Minister, Pedro Sánchez, and that is why exact dates are not detailed, but rather an orientation "with wide forks. "

And it does not, he explained, because the evolution of the pandemic, in addition, is different between territories depending on the established indicators, with which the technicians who have worked on the plan have a "clear" vision that the situation is evolutionary so "giving dates would be neither prudent nor sensible".

The plan speaks of phases and there are areas of Spain that may be in some of them already advanced, but "the vast majority of this is that we are all in phase O and from there begin to demonstrate, with the information in hand, why You may think that some territory is in another phase. "

Nor has it specified, for example, in the next phase, the number of people who will be able to meet, something that will be defined but it has affirmed that the better we apply the measures that reduce the risk of individual transmission and the better we apply the indications going out, "better and faster we can go from one phase to another".

The de-escalation plan indicates that from phase 1 it will be possible to establish social contact with other people who are not elderly or have previous pathologies or are vulnerable, and in this regard, Simón has said that at the moment, he cannot specify which population is will consider vulnerable.

Right now, he said, the most vulnerable groups are people with certain pathologies and those with a lethality higher than usual, such as those over 80 years of age and also 70 years old, but he has insisted that it is not clear how the final document will be and that each measure that implies greater mobility will be accompanied by "instructions".

"The final cut-off point obviously always has a certain arbitrariness," admitted Simon.